Alfie

 

This is Alfie in costume for the play "A Doll's House".  It was written in 1879 by the Norwegian playwright Ibsen - hence the old-fashioned costumes.

Back Home In Sunny Glasgow

Left Montjoi at 7 am this morning .... it was 9C and raining heavily all the way to Carcassonne airport.  When we landed at Prestwick, it was wonderfully warm ... exactly the opposite of how things normally are.  Apart from one nice day at the seaside, it was pretty horrible weather all the time we were there.  Plus I felt rotten the whole time, which didn't help.  In fact, if Sunday hadn't been forecast to be so sunny, we would have cut our stay short and come home.

French farmers are glad that the water reserves have been topped up but also worries by the fact that it has been so cold that everything - especially the cherries and the melons which are very important in our area - are so late this year.

A little bit of good news: one of the paintings that Marion put in for the competition at the Maclaurin Gallery in Ayr has been accepted.

Biarritz Beach

       

She's No Dummy

 St Enoch's Shopping Mall today.  Thought I was seeing things .... and then she winked at me! 

Cloned!

Phone call from Royal Bank credit card this morning to tell me our credit cards had been cancelled and were now useless. The reason?  Someone had cloned my card  and they wouldn't tell me how they knew. The woman in the call centre checked over all the recent entries with me and they were all OK.  The only one that I didn't know about was a deposit taken by the car hire company in France.  Turns out Royal Bank have refused this charge so we are going to have trouble tomorrow morning when we go to pick up the car in Carcassonne!

'Don't worry' they said 'we'll sent you new cards with a new account number to your home address in the next 7-10 days'.  Fat lot of use that'll be in Montjoi.

Iona Lambs

 There were lots of little black lambs on Iona.  The funny thing was that all their mothers were white.

More Videos At Sea

The first one is taken with my phone right at the mouth of Fingal's Cave.   The second clip is of the boat coming to pick us up.  It was very tricky because of the waves and the tide - we had to time it just right and leap onto the boat from the jetty!  Below are a couple more photos to show what it was like on the boat.

You had to hold on at all times, the sea was so lumpy

Not only was it raining but we also got soaked by sea spray